World Economic Forum calls Trump’s America the most competitive country — while Canada drops to #12
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A new report by the World Economic Forum says Donald Trump s America is the most competitive country in the world, but Canada has fallen to No. 12. Why should others go to jail when you're the world's biggest carbon consumer?
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Tonight, a new report by the World Economic Forum says Donald Trump's America is the most competitive country in the world, but Canada has fallen to number 12.
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It's October 18, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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It's more of a club where politicians and celebrities and business people and wannabes go for an annual party each January in Davos, Switzerland.
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Maybe you've heard it referred to that way, Davos.
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It's like the film festival in Cannes, France, but for bankers, really.
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Of course, the hangers-on are thick as thieves because there's a lot more money at Davos than at Cannes.
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Trudeau first went to Davos in January 2016, shortly after he was elected.
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Look at this, love letter from the state broadcaster Justin Trudeau's youthful pro-diversity pitch goes global in Davos.
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PM's prowess on social media earned him fans around the world before arriving at World Economic Forum.
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Yeah, that's pretty cringy to read now at the end of 2018, isn't it?
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But even the media has gotten a bit sick of that.
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I mean, it's only so long you can pretend that being a mascot and dancing and social media prowess is the same as being a leader.
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Remember when some people still thought that was pretty fresh?
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Scroll down to the end of the story a little bit.
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There's a picture of Trudeau taking a selfie with a pretty girl.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes a photo with global shaper.
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Global shaper Rowan Abutairi from Saudi Arabia after a question and answer session in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday.
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But she's from Saudi Arabia, which is a place that doesn't let her go out with uncovered hair.
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But her purpose is just to put a pretty face on the dictatorship in Davos.
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And Trudeau and the CBC were happy to oblige in that PR.
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But the media loved it, or at least the CBC did.
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Here's another one about celebrities who took Trudeau photos, selfies with Trudeau.
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You'll see Trudeau with a Hollywood sex predator.
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To be done with that Squaresville guy, Stephen Harper.
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They were like the rambling, cliched speeches he used to give at teachers' conventions for
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But you need to take as much effort to talk to your sons, my eight-year-old boy and my
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two-year-old, so a little young still, about how he treats women and how he is going to
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And that was before the revelation came out that Justin Trudeau actually sexually assaulted
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But unlike his parties as a trust fund playboy growing up, and by growing up, I mean until
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his mid-30s, you and I had to pay for this trip.
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He did give a substantive speech of sorts, including this line.
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I'm going to come back to that line in a moment, because unlike most of his virtue signaling
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and his blather and his fancy socks, there was some substance there, a claim that fighting
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climate change creates growth and jobs and wealth and prosperity.
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By the way, Stephen Harper would occasionally attend some of these fancy get-togethers.
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One year, I think it was before he was prime minister, he went to the Bilderberg get-together
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One year, I think he went to the Bohemian Grove Secret Society in California.
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These things are clubs and parties and hangouts.
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I suppose some real work does get done at them, but they're not formal meetings.
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Or you could show off your fancy socks and hang out with aging celebrities.
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Oh, and it's also where he meets up with George Soros.
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So maybe back in 2016, Justin Trudeau was still too green.
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He'd only been prime minister for a few months.
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Donald Trump hadn't yet become president, hadn't yet reshaped the world, including its
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So maybe Trudeau was just still in frat boy mode.
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Trump had been president for a full year, cutting taxes, canceling the UN Global Warming Treaty
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for America, renegotiating NAFTA, going full tilt with oil and gas and coal production.
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But the main thing was Trump had just, if you recall, in January, cut taxes so deeply.
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I think it was the largest tax cuts in U.S. history.
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And he was really following through on his promise to make America great again economically.
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I mean, I don't care what you say about Donald Trump's personality.
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You must admit, economically at least, he has kept that promise jobs-wise, lowest unemployment
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So what did Trudeau say in January 2018, when he was two years older and two years wiser,
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now a year into Trump's administration, in the wake of this massive tax cut, here's what
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Justin Trudeau used his platform to talk about.
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I'd like to focus tonight on a fundamental shift that every single leader in this room
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One that I've made a central tenet of my leadership.
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One that is core to this year's forum, thanks to the leadership of our seven exceptional co-chairs.
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I'm talking about hiring, promoting, and retaining more women.
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And not just because it's the right thing to do, or the nice thing to do, but because
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In Canada, like all over the world, much of the economic and labor force growth we've
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experienced over the last many decades is because of women entering into and changing
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They do pretty well in Canada, from corporate leadership to political leadership.
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I don't think there's any real barriers anymore other than if women choose not to do something.
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We have the third governor general in recent years who's female.
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We just had a female chief justice of our Supreme Court and prime minister.
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I mean, women's equality is a big deal in places like Iran and Saudi Arabia, but Justin
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We should be encouraging women and men to make the best decision for their family situation.
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This is the guy, I remind you, who hired not one, but two nannies with taxpayers' dollars.
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But he was the closest he was getting to a policy proposal.
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He had the world's attention, or at least some of the insiders for a moment.
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He was his big pitch to investors to the economic masters of the universe, just days after Trump
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In Canada, we need more women in politics, more women on corporate boards, and more women
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STEM, by the way, is science, technology, engineering, and math.
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And by the way, liberals have been toying with the idea of forcing quotas on companies for
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women on boards of directors, and obviously affirmative action in universities and scientific
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So really, it was just the same as in 2016, just super cool feminist virtue signaling.
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He didn't really say anything substantive on NAFTA back then.
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I just want to remind you what World Economic Forum was, what that Davos group was.
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Because the World Economic Forum, the group that hosts these great parties each year,
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each January, where Trudeau goes to speak and makes promises of, what did he say again?
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We can fight climate change without sacrificing growth and prosperity.
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He said, in fact, our global push toward a low-carbon economy will produce new companies,
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Now, did his feminism and did his carbon tax obsession and his global warming obsession,
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did that, in fact, bring new companies to Canada, new growth to Canada, new prosperity
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Well, in addition to having big parties, the World Economic Forum does some economic studies.
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They do some work the rest of the year, including a massive, comprehensive, deeply researched
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publication each year on global competitiveness.
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They rank the countries of the world by dozens of different criteria.
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I'll take you straight to the executive summary on page XI.
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They say, covering 140 economies, the Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 measures national competitiveness
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defined as a set of institutions, policies, and factors that determine the level of productivity.
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Right on top there, the United States of America.
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America, and then Singapore, and then Germany, and then Switzerland, and then Japan.
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Now, if you skip to page 143, that's the detailed report on Canada.
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You can see what went into our country rankings.
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So this wasn't like figure skating judges that have an element of subjectivity.
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There's dozens of factors, each of which itself is measured as carefully as can be done.
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Now, just hold up on this big chart on the screen for a moment.
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Those are different measures for competitiveness.
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On the far left, it says overall competitiveness.
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And then the country name at the top of the bar, it says USA.
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And since this is the Canada page, the number at the bottom shows our rank.
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So on that bar on the left, that's the overall ranking.
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The next four bars that are pink there, those are all called enabling environment.
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That's broken down into things like institutions and infrastructure and other things like that.
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And each of those is broken down further and further and further.
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So you can see we're actually tied for number one on macroeconomic stability.
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That means our banks are not failing in Canada.
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Our dollar is not plunging into nothing, like Venezuela, say.
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That's our banking system that survived the 2008 crash in the U.S.
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And Stephen Harper and Jim Flaherty brought in some changes there.
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Now, the next category is called human capital.
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Even slipping two notches from 10 to 12 isn't a cataclysm.
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But we're going in the wrong direction under Baron von Novelty's socks, aren't we?
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While the tyrant Donald Trump has taken his country into number one.
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I'm just trying to show you that the overall number is made up of a lot of different parts.
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Now, over on the far right, in, I guess, what's that color?
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Cutting red tape, stuff like that, getting it done.
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It's no surprise the U.S. is number one for that.
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And innovation, for all of Trudeau's talk, we're just in 13th place for that.
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I want to show you the line at the bottom there.
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You see that line that says 10-year average GDP growth, and it's just 1.6%.
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Now, of course, Stephen Harper was prime minister for seven of the last 10 years,
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but that included the worldwide Great Recession.
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You know, the projected GDP growth for Canada is only about 2%.
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I mean, now the TV bank says that all this marijuana business will boost it to 2.2%.
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I wonder how much damage to the GDP that stone drivers and stone workers will cost, so I'm
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But my point is, we're growing at just around 2%.
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While Donald Trump's America just clocked double that.
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And of course, their economy is 10 times bigger than ours anyways.
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I want to show you a few more details on where the World Economic Forum says we're weak.
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And you might disagree with them, but I want to show you their measurements,
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because I know you won't see this anywhere else.
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And do you see it says ranking out of 140 countries they measure?
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So there are 60 countries that are more honest in their government budgeting than Canada is.
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There's another one on there called efficiency of legal framework in challenging regulations.
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That's another one we're doing poorly and ranked 25th.
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So that says, you know, that says we're ranked where we are, but I think we're going to do
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Just ask anyone who's been following the oil and gas pipeline fiasco trying to get the
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That means someone comes in the door and says, I want to work for you.
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Well, we want CPP and we want EI and we want payroll taxes and OPP and all that.
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That's a big deterrent to employment, of course.
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I don't know how they measure it, but they call it attitudes towards entrepreneurial risk.
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Why would you risk things in Canada to be an entrepreneur?
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The government will just tax you, regulate you, ban you, scold you, make it tough for
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I blame a system that punishes and even demonizes entrepreneurs, you know, like this guy.
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We'll probably have things to say about it, but we have to know that a large percentage
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of small businesses are actually just ways for wealthier Canadians to save on their taxes.
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Yeah, when a millionaire trust fund boy who never had worked a day in his life till his
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mid-30s calls millions of small business people tax cheats, why would you risk everything?
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Why would you put your life savings into a business just for him to come and take half
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the profits if you succeed and blame me if you don't?
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We were told time and again that Trudeau's social justice obsessions, that feminism, that
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global warming, that diversity, that people kind stuff, whatever, we've been told a hundred
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times by Trudeau and his cabinet and their stenographers in the media that it would all
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Lots of money, apparently, to be made when a carbon tax is put on you.
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Lots of money to be made by affirmative action for women in engineering companies.
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I don't know, the thinking being that greedy capitalists, people who actually work for a
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living and run businesses for a living and love profit and love prosperity, they don't
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know how to hire and they need trust fund layabouts to tell them how to run their business.
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All they needed was for Trudeau and his gurus to tell them how to run their companies and
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We're running at just half the GDP growth of Trump's America.
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I guess the only question is, is that good enough for Canadians?
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I make the argument both that there's no scientific evidence that trans women have a competitive
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There's no relationship between the naturally produced endogenous testosterone and performance.
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And that sport is a human right, according to the IOC, and that we have to promote inclusive
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I think sport is becoming increasingly inclusive.
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I think those opposing inclusive sport are on the wrong side of history and that the victories
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But there's no guarantee that we will get to where we want to without continuing to fight.
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That is a man, born a man who has decided to become a woman, calls himself Rachel now.
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And as I said yesterday in my monologue, if someone says you really should treat me like
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In a personal setting, in a real life setting, I don't think I would quarrel with them.
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Why would you want to fight with someone if they really, really, really believe they're
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A few years ago, this was considered a mental illness until a vote by the American Psychiatric
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Association at a conference just decided that it was no longer an illness.
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But if a man who presents as a woman can then enter a sports competition and crush biological
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women, because he is a biological man and despite what he says there, men obviously have a physical
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advantage when it comes to power and strength, do we have to go along with that too?
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And the reason I say that is that Dr. Rachel McKinnon, as he calls himself, did win a championship
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bicycling competition, there he is in the middle there, and I'm sorry, he looks, you can see
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physiologically he is different than the two women he beat.
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And of course, you can't see the other woman who was displaced because he came in first,
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these women were pushed down to second and third, and then there's someone we'll never
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know who came in fourth, who's not on the podium.
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Joining us now via Skype from Montreal is Barbara Kaye, a columnist with the National Post to talk
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You know, I don't want to fight with anybody, I don't want to pick on anybody.
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If someone is uncomfortable in their own skin, if someone has a problem with themselves,
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As I said on my show yesterday, there is a tremendous amount of mental anguish that goes
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along with transgenderism, and suicide attempts are 50% or more if these young men go on hormones
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or have surgery, the suicide attempts go up to 55% or 60%.
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It's not a case for anger, it's a case for sorrow and trying to help.
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But this guy is pushing aside actual female athletes, and he's claiming it's his human
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Well, you know, all this talk of rights, inclusivity, that's all very well, but this really is about
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And I'm not surprised that Dr. McKinnon takes this angle of rights and inclusivity, because
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we have been made to use the word woman, to change the definition of woman from biological
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So that's, as you say, it's all very well if you're just in polite conversation or in a
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classroom or whatever, but when you are dealing with sport, which is very much about biological
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capacity, the inclusivity has to stop right there, because this is not working, it's not
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only testosterone that gives biological males the advantage in a sporting situation.
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It's muscle mass, it's body shape, it's size, all these things.
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It doesn't work the other way, because women who think that they are men who have gender
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dysphoria, so women who identify as male, they're not going to have that advantage, no
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In most sporting situations, it's going to be very unusual, or one that requires great
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It's going to be very unusual for a biological female to beat a male.
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So this is all a baffle gab, this talk of rights and inclusivity.
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And I always said, sports is where the rubber is going to meet the road on the trans issue,
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because sooner or later, the women who are being displaced, who are being erased, whose
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biology is being erased, are going to get the message and say, no more, we're not standing
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And frankly, if I were a female athlete and that happened to me, I would go on strike.
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I just wouldn't compete against biological males, and I would say, start a new category
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for trans women, and let's compete against each other.
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There's a reason we don't let 16-year-old boys, young men, play hockey against 10-year-old
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boys, it's not, I mean, I suppose we are, in the technical sense of the word, discriminating,
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but it's discrimination with a valid basis, because the 16-year-old's going to crush the
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It's the reason we have, in boxing, we have different weight categories.
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I suppose that is discrimination, but it's because we don't want, you know, a brutal
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So yes, this is discrimination, but it's based on, as you say, the nature of sport.
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It's not sporting for a man to beat up a woman.
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It's not sporting, it's like that Seinfeld episode, when Kramer goes to Taekwondo against
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all the little kids, and he's so proud of himself, because he beat all these little kids.
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And that's why we have, why sport is a metaphor for fairness, and it's why, you know, people
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You know, when you play tennis, when you call a ball out, if it's in or in or if it's out,
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people look at you, you know, it's just the most terrible thing you can do is to cheat
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So, you know, the sporting associations, the IOC, they've been slow to respond and to
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come up with policies because they're a little bit paralyzed by the ideology.
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These are all people that want to be in good standing in terms of being good citizens and
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But they're baffled and upset by this because they know very well in their heart that speed,
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power, all these attributes are biologically based and no amount of identifying with the
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And this idea that only testosterone counts, sorry, that's not on.
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And real athletes know that that is not the only distinction.
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I think one of the reasons why sports heroes are treated with such admiration, regardless,
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by the way, I'm going to mention, of their race.
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I mean, in the sports, the field of professional sports in America, whether it's the NFL, the
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NBA, the Major League Baseball, is a field where black Americans especially have excelled
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Because, in fact, racism, if there was a team out there that would be racist and not
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hire a black player, they're going to lose to the team that hires the best people regardless
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But the flip side of that, Barbara, is there's no affirmative action either.
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So you know if you're the best basketball player in America, if you're the best baseball
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And everyone in the stadium saw it with their eyes.
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You didn't get a head start because you were this race or that gender.
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One of the reasons why people can, I think, admire sports heroes is because they see the
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I totally agree with you, and I think I would love to see what really bothers me is that
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the biological males who are winning in women's sports, they know that even if you gave them
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all the testosterone they wanted, they would be middle of the pack or much further back in
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So, you know, the reason she's posting all over the Internet, you know, social media,
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This is and nobody's getting excited about it because people in their hearts know that
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It's as meaningless as somebody who wins any other competition when they're on steroids or
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that's why people don't want drugs in sports because, you know, you want a level playing
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And I'm sorry, you know, lowering the testosterone may reduce the capacity somewhat, but it is
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So female athletes, they have to speak their minds and not be political correct about this.
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I want to show you two images from social media.
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First is the biography that Rachel McKinnon puts on his.
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I don't want to go along with the emperor has no clothes because because this person is
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So on his biography, he says strident feminist, strident feminist.
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And then show the Instagram picture again, because here's the point I want to make.
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So in the in the picture, not not these hashtags, show the image itself, if you please, because
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you have Rachel McKinnon, which is what the transgender man standing between two women.
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How long until all three people on the podium are transgender men?
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I'd say not long at all, because it won't be long.
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That's a Trojan horse of a feminist using the word feminism to destroy women's sport.
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When all three people on the podium are transgender men, who the hell is going to watch that?
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Who the hell is going to enter that sports league?
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And slowly but surely, look, you have transgender men, women going into women's prisons, you know, into rape shelters.
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You can't you can't keep pushing this idea of inclusivity and this idea of a social construct.
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This this idea that gender and biology are completely detached.
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It's going to show up in some in women as a category, as a biological category becoming totally erased.
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And, you know, me, Ezra, I'm no feminist, but I'm on the side of the radical feminists on this one.
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And they they feel themselves being erased as a unique category, a biological category.
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And they are. And that's and and actually you bring up a very good point.
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One day we will see three trans women on the podium and and that will be the end of women's sports.
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That'll be the end unless they do something about it now.
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I want to close with a point I made in the beginning.
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And you saw that little clip where, oh, this is not about sport.
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This is about human rights. I hear two things there.
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Because what's a right? A right is something that you have that you can take action on, that you can that you can execute, that you can seek.
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You can have a grievance. Your right has been infringed.
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You have a grievance. You can go and get equity.
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I take this as a threat that if any league were to speak, because if it was about sport, this Rachel McKinnon is going to lose the argument every time because we're not stupid.
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Just because he says, oh, no, men don't have an advantage.
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It's like Elizabeth Warren saying she's aboriginal.
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But in this case, she at least Elizabeth Warren isn't saying I'm a Cherokee Indian.
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And if you don't believe me, I'm going to take you to a human rights commission.
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And if you don't agree with me, I'll see you in court.
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That's what I think, because that's popping up all over Canada.
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These absurd transgender demands to go to, you know, aesthetics.
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Yeah. And our own our own parliament is encouraging that by passing bills that are very vague in their meaning, like C-16, which incorporates gender expression as a human right.
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Does it mean the right for biological males to compete against biological females?
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You know, we don't know because nothing was specified.
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And and this is the language of human rights courts, too.
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You know, you remember the stupid case of the trans woman who wanted the Brazilian wax, the Manzilian.
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These are the kind of cases that show just how ill-defined this whole idea of what gender expression really means.
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And it's very rare that you're even allowed to have this conversation.
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I have seen no other issue, Barbara, not even Islam.
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It's very difficult to have an honest conversation about Islam in most media.
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You get shut down. You get called an Islamophobe.
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But the transgenderism issue, my observation, just by following media and politics, is that there is even less tolerance for politically incorrect comments.
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In fact, the conversation you and I have here, I don't think it would even be allowed on most other media.
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Do you agree with me that the viciousness of the mob on this issue is the harshest anywhere, even more than on Islam?
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Absolutely. I've never I follow it on social media and it is vicious.
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These trans activists are they are scary as hell.
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And you're quite right. Most media do not want to touch it.
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And I have to be extremely careful what I say about it in my normal publication outlets.
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But even so, I can just feel the tension around it every time I I do write about it.
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I know that there's a lot of nervousness in case there's blowback.
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Yeah. Well, I just think that this will, like you say, reach a breaking point.
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And I stand by my prediction. It'll be a matter of months, years, if not months.
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Well, I hope it comes soon because then it'll force the issue.
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In a way, you should hope for that so that we can truly see the emperor has no clothes, you know,
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Yeah. Barbara, thanks for taking the time with us today. I appreciate it.
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All right. There you have it. Barbara Kay, a columnist with The National Post.
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Hey, welcome back. On my monologue yesterday about a transgendered man winning a women's sports event, Tammy writes,
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female athletes should be more vocal and demand their governing bodies intervene and put a stop to this and do it now.
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Well, I agree, Tammy, but they're going to be sued.
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This is a human rights issue, which when I hear that, having been prosecuted by the Human Rights Commission for publishing some cartoons a decade ago,
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way to stand up and call a spade a spade on the ugly and embarrassing transgender scam in sports, Ezra.
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Well, look, as we talked with Barbara Kay today, let there be a league for folks like this.
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There's a reason, as I put it, we have different weight categories and boxing, different age categories,
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That's why we don't have adults competing against kids, because it's not sport then.
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why would any woman even participate in this competition, given the evident man size of their competitor?
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I mean, don't tell me there's no biological, physiological difference.
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I mean, I understand what a transvestite is that comes from the word to dress differently.
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I understand transgenderism as well, but you cannot change your innate DNA and biology.
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And if you cut things off and inject yourself with hormones, you are still a man.
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I'm sorry that you can't change yourself innately.
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It's something we all wrestle with in life, isn't it?
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On my interview with Alessandro Bocci, Andrew writes,
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the rest of Europe can learn a thing or two from Italy.
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He's not, he's just a member of the European Parliament,
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the Alternative for Deutschland getting seats in Bavaria this week.
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and you wouldn't know it if you watched the CBC.
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If you got your news from the CBC, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star,
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you would not, you either would not know about Matteo Salvini and the Italian government,
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or you would be told that they're racist, anti-Semitic, far-right, blah, blah, blah.
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What was so interesting for me in Alessandro's interview
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was that she said it was a coalition between the right and the left,
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So hopefully we can get some more reports from her from Italy.
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On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,